Why had she not gone to live in Europe like her sister, since she was the richer of the two?
Even Julio gravely declared that in the old world he could study to better advantage.

America is not the land of the learned.
Infected by the general unrest, the father finally began to wonder why the idea of going to Europe had not occurred to him long before.
Thirty-four years without going to that country which was not his!.

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It was high time to start! He was living too near to his business.